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The name of the latest addition to Prague Zoo’s bison herd was jointly revealed by the zoo’s director, Miroslav Bobek, and slalom canoeist Jiří Prskavec Jr. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

On Saturday, 26 July, slalom canoeist and Olympic champion Jiří Prskavec Jr. symbolically ‘christened’ a young bison at Prague Zoo. The five-week-old female was named Prskavka (Sparkler), a name put forward by Bronislava Vališová from Prague in a competition on the iDNES.cz portal. In all there were 3,078 suggestions,...

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The history of Prague Zoo goes all the way back to the year 1881, when, on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Count Sweerts-Sporck published an open letter in the newspapers calling for the establishment of a zoological garden in Prague.


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